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D. G. NOBCOTT. HANSOM.

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U ITE STATES PATENT Erica.

DWIGHT O. NOROOTT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HANSOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,404, dated November21, 1899. Application filed May 2,1898. Serial No. 679,426. (No model.)

To all whom, it mag/concern:

Be it known that I, DWIGHT C. NOROOTT, of Boston, county of Suffolk,State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Hansoms, ofwhich the following description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representinglike parts.

This invention relates to hansoms, and has for its object to improve theconstruction of the means employed for operating the doors and also toimprove the construction of the means employed for sliding the window.

In carrying out this invention the doors are made as usual and hingesare provided for.

them, by means of which they are connected with the frame, and one ofthe hinges of each door is constructed with an actuating device, bymeans of which it is operated, and an operating device is provided forsaid actuating device, whereby it may be operated by the driverperchedon his seat at the rear of the vehicle.

A sliding window is provided with guides adapted to slide along onsuitable curved guide-rods adapted to receive them, and a lazy-ton gsoperating device is provided for operating said sliding window which isaccessible to the driver.

Figure 1 shows in vertical section a hansom provided with door andwindow operating devices embodying this invention. Fig. 2 is a detail ofthe lazy tongs operating device. Figs. 3 and 4 are details of the hinge,showing an actuating device connected with it; and Fig. 5 is a detail ofa cooperative part of the operatingdevice for the actuating device ofthe hinge.

The body of the hansom a and its swinging doors I) and sliding window 0may be of any usual or suitable construction. The doors '6 are eachprovided with a pair of hinges b, and one of the hinges of each pair--asthe upper one, for instanceis constructed with an actuating device, towhich an operating device is connected, whereby the doors may bepositively opened and closed at will by the driver While sitting on hisseat at the rear of the vehicle. The hinge which is thus provided withan actuating device (see Figs. 3 and 4) is composed, essentially, of twoparts 6 19 one of which, as 5 is secured to the frame or body a of thevehicle, andthe other of which, as 19 is secured to the door. Each partb b has formed on it a component part b of a circular shell, and saidparts are herein shown as made alike and abut together or fit one Withinthe other. The two parts of the hinge, each bearing a component part ofthe shell, are pivotally connected together by a pivot-bolt 12 whichserves as a pintle for the hinge. The actuating device of the hinge iscontained within and concealed by said shell 5 and said shell isprovided for the purpose of thus receiving and concealing said actuatingdevice.

As herein shown, the actuating. device is composed of two gears 17 I)",made substantially alike, one of which, as b, is secured to thestationary part of the hinge b and the other of which, as N, is securedto the movable part of the hinge 19 both being contained within theshell b and said stationary and movable gears b b are disposed withinthe shell 19 on the pivot-bolt b so as to move relatively to each otheron an axis coincident with the axis of the pintle of the hinge, and saidgears b bTare located a short distance apart, with their toot-h'ed facesopposite each other. A pinion b is interposed between said gears, whichmeshes with both of said gears b 19 and said pinion b is journaled onthe end of an arm 6 which is mounted on said pivot-bolt b and is adaptedto be moved on said bolt as an axis. The arm I) is extended at theopposite side of said pivot-bolt or pintle b for a short distance, andto the extremity of said arm a bar Z9 is loosely connected, whichprojects inwardly through a slot in the shell. By moving the bar Z2longitudinally the arm b bearing the interposed pinion 6 will beoperated in one or the other direction, and the movable member 19 of thehinge will be positively operated.

. I do not desire to limit my invention in all respects to theparticular construction of actuating device herein shown, as it isobvious that various forms of actuating devices may be employed adaptedto accomplish the re sults herein specified, and, furthermore, I de sireit to be understood that, so far as the employment of the shell isconcerned, any other form or construction of actuating device thangearing may be employed.

The longitudinally-moving bars 11 which are connected with the actuatingdevices of the hinges of each door, are loosely connected to the upperends of levers d, which are in turn loosely connected to rearwardly extended rods (1 which are connected together at the rear part of thevehicle by a rod (Z and at a point substantially at the middle of saidconnecting-rod d a short bar this loosely connected, the rear end ofwhich is loosely connected to a crank-arm d fixed to the lower end of avertical rod or bar (1, which extends upwardly a sufiicient distance tobe within reach of the driver, and said rod or bar d will be provided atits upper end with a handpiece (F, by which it may be turned. It will beseen that by turning said vertical rod 6 in one or the other directionthe two doors will be positively opened and closed.

The sliding window 0 is made as usual and has on each side of it a framea, bearing a pair of guide-blocks 0*, which are swiveled to theirbearings, and said guide-blocks c are formed with holes through them toreceive and move along on guide-rods 0 which are supported by the frameat each side of the vehicle. The window 0 is thus supported at its sidesby the guide-blocks c on the guiderods 0 Midway the width of the window0 a link 0' is loosely connected, the opposite end of which is connectedto a lazy-tongs operating device a The lazy-tongs operating device c iscomposed of a number of pairs of pivoted levers connected together andbearing a number of blocks a, (see Fig. 1,) which are adapted to slidealong on a rod cflsupported by the framework, which is especiallyadapted to receive said blocks. Thus the operating device 0 is supportedand guided by the rod 0 which is provided solely for such purpose. Ahandpiece 0 is provided at the outer end of said lazy-tongs operatingdevice, which is accessible to the driver. By moving the handpiece 0 inand out the lazy-tongs operating device will be operated and the slidingwindow moved.

I claim 1. In a hansom, a door having ahinge composed of two partssecured one to the door and the other to the frame, a pintle, a shellcomposed of two parts, one on each part of the hinge and movablerelatively to each other on an axis coincident with the axis of saidpintle, and an actuating device for said hinge contained within saidshell, and means for operating it, substantially as described.

2. In a hansom, a door having a hinge composed of two parts secured oneto the door and the other to the frame, a pintle, and an actuatingdevice consisting of a pair of gears, one on the stationary part and theother on the movable part of said hinge, an intermeshing pinion and anoperating device for said actuating device, substantially as described.

3. In a hansom, a door, a hinge therefor composed of two parts, one onthe door and the other on the frame, a pintle, an actuating device forsaid hinge composed of a pair of gears, one on the movable part and theother on the stationary part of said hinge, and an intermeshing pinion,an arm hearing it turning on the pintle as a center and an operatingdevice connected to said arm, substantially as described.

4. In a hansom, a door, a hinge therefor composed of two parts one onthe door and the other on the frame, a pintle, an actuating device forsaid hinge composed of a pair of gears, one on the movable part and theother on the stationary part of said hinge, and an intermeshing pinion,an arm bearing it turning on the pintle as a center, and alongitudinally-inovable bar loosely connected to said arm and means foroperating it, substantially as described.

5. In a hansom, a sliding window having guides thereon, guideways ateach side on which said window slides and a lazy-tongs operating devicefor said Window, substantially as described.

6. In a hansom, a sliding window having guides thereon, guideways ateach side on which said window slides, an operating device looselyconnected with said window composed of a number of connected lazy-tongslevers and a support therefor, substantially as described.

7. In a hansom, a sliding window, a lazytongs operating device therefor,composed of a number of lazy-tongs levers connected together and anumber of sliding blocks bearing said levers and a rod on which saidblocks slide, substantially as described.

8. In a hansom, a sliding window, two curved guide-rods c 0 two pivotedguides 0 0 on each side of said window which embrace an d travel along011 said curved guiderods, and means for operating said window,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

DIVIGI'IT C. NORCOTT.

\Vitnesses:

B. J. Novas, JENNIE L. HUToHINsoN.

